What’s On around Ireland

The Model is delighted to present once more The Sunset Belongs to You – a series of portraits commissioned from two of Irelands most distinguished painters, Mick O’Dea + Geraldine O’Neill. The portraits capture young people from diverse backgrounds living across County Sligo, and were painted between 2022–23. Looked at together, they provide a hopeful glimpse into the Ireland of the future.

Penti Menti at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre is Sarah Dwyer’s first institutional exhibition in Ireland. Born in Cork, Dwyer has a significant international profile. The artist frequently combines drawing with painting, printmaking and sculpture, employing exuberant colour palettes and lively mark-making to depict semi-figurative and abstract imagery. Taking cues from Surrealism, Cobra and Abstract Expressionism, her practice explores image and form through the iterative nature of storytelling and poetry. Dwyer’s dynamic compositions process her own surroundings and the everyday experience—while also indulging our desire for play.

Droichead Arts Centre is delighted to announce its partnership with fellow North East Network members, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, and An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, in a unique extension of Solstice’s annual selected survey of local professional arts practice.

North East Network supports, values and encourages visual artists in the North East to develop their practices and creative careers. The exhibition presents an overview of contemporary visual arts practice in County Louth and Meath. There will be a visual arts award of €2,000 selected by each curator in each arts centre.

The Tea Houses presents the upcoming exhibition, River(s) of no Return by Bernadette Kiely, guest curated by Shannon Carroll. The river flows through Bernadette Kiely’s work as it does through her life. Living on the banks of the River Nore, she has borne witness to the shifting balance between water, land and those on its edges. Her practice is grounded in slow observation: walking the river, listening to it, tracing its presence and noticing how it connects to wider cycles of change, from local floods to wildfires and environmental crises across the world. Exhibition Opening 3PM Saturday, November 15th. All welcome, open daily 11.30-5.30.

Book Launch with exhibition. 15th Nov – 30th Nov
In this remarkable collaboration between two of Ireland’s finest artists, James Harpur and Paul Ó Colmáin have produced a book of wonders, a set of poems and artworks that imaginatively restore the lives of the Irish saints. Here are pages in which the human and divine, natural and supernatural, converge and interfuse, a realm which is recognisably Irish, but also a place beyond – where Ireland is invisible.

In this remarkable collaboration between two of Ireland’s finest artists,
James Harpur and Paul Ó Colmáin have produced a book of wonders, a set of poems and artworks that imaginatively restore the lives of the Irish saints.
Here are pages in which the human and divine, natural and supernatural, converge and interfuse into a realm which is recognisably Irish, but also a place beyond – where Ireland is invisible.
The exhibition will continue until Sat. Dec. 6th.

Join us this November for a unique dance performance titled Moving Signatures, featuring participants from CoisCéim Broadreach in response to the museum’s Permanent Collection exhibition IMMA Collection: Art as Agency and the historical site of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Featuring 19 participants, audience members are invited to follow the dance in a promenade-style experience through IMMA’s communal and transitory spaces, exploring how movement activates the museum’s social and spatial architecture. 

F r e e d o m is an artistic act of solidarity with those the Kings don’t care about.

Inspired by Antigone, this one-off experimental performance intervention explores what an act of defiance against the Kings looks like today.

Three international artists, Iman Aoun (Palestine), Haider Al Timimi (Belgium), and Maud Hendricks (Ireland), each working at a different proximity to Gaza, ask how does an artist’s contextual distance shape their work in relation to Gaza, freedom, and truth-speaking?

An original chorus of nine Ireland-based performers will be joined by new chorus members who meet and perform in a single afternoon.

Exhibition continues from the 10th of November to the 23rd of November 2025

The Signal Arts Centre in Bray is showing a new collection of paintings entitled “Landscapes in Time” by artist Kieran Guckian.
The work is inspired by the Irish landscape with a focus on both Kieran’s plein-air work, a central part of his practice and his studio work. His location work is a crucial part of his research and ideation for his larger studio pieces. For this collection Kieran spent time in multiple locations such as the Copper Coast and the Burren as well as favourite locations in Wicklow such as Bray Head and Glendalough.
The opening event will take place on Friday the 14th of November from 7pm to 9pm.

Exhibition continues from the 15th of November to the 18th of November 2025

To celebrate of the bicentennial of photography, The Paris International Street Photography Awards has curated an exhibition of 50 photographers. Deirdre Brennan’s image of Sinead O’Connor’s funeral cortege was selected for the exhibition at the Joseph Froissart gallery, located at 7 rue Froissart in the historic Le Marais district of Paris, will host the exhibition “PISPA 2025 Bicentennial” from November 15th to 18th. An exhibition commemorating 200 years of photography since Joseph Nicé phore Nié pce and Louis Daguerre gave the world the first photographic process as modern history has remembered it.

Continues from the  12th of November to the 21st of December 2025

J Hill’s Standard, one of Ireland’s most celebrated craft and design houses, will curate and manage Form & Fable, a pop-up store at Wilton Park that celebrates Irish craftsmanship, design, and creativity.

In partnership with IPUT Real Estate, Form & Fable is a six-week retail residency running from Wednesday 12 November to Sunday 21 December, bringing together a carefully curated collection of Ireland’s most skilled makers.

Every piece on display — and available for purchase — has been designed in Ireland, is rooted in tradition and elevated by contemporary design.

Exhibition continues from the 6th of November to the 29th of November 2025

Bloom and Current
A solo exhibition by Sarah Loughnane

Bloom and Current is a solo exhibition of fluid acrylic paintings exploring the living rhythms of the natural world. Inspired by flowers and water, the works reflect on transformation, fragility, and unseen forces. Through layered pigments and flowing movement, each painting captures a moment where nature is both fleeting and enduring – inviting viewers to pause, immerse, and connect with the balance between control and spontaneity.

Established by Catalyst Arts in 1994 and now in its 16th edition, FIX is an internationally renowned biennial of live art and performance.

FIX25 will take place in locations across Belfast City Centre, with artists responding to the theme of HIGH OCTANE — forceful; intense; dynamic; high-powered. Artists include: Alastair MacLennan, Amanda Coogan, Bbeyond, BSOA students, Brian Connolly, Emma Brennan, Glassbox collective, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea, Nathan Harper, Rudger Power, Sally O’Dowd, Sandra Johnston, and Thomas Wells.

Full schedule of events is available on the Catalyst Arts website.

Exhibition continues from the 15th of November to the 20th of December 2025

For this exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre, Helen Hughes presents a new body of work. Here she has limited her wide range of her materials to just three – rubber, plastic and expanding foam. This new work was influenced by the unique setting of this gallery – the strong presence of moving water, its proximity and imposing energy pervading the interior spaces. Her starting point for this work was a series of floatation devices from which the works evolved.

Exhibition continues from the 14th of November to the 30th of November 2025

Stolen Sealskin is a solo exhibition by Sarah Lou Kinneen. It reimagines the enduring Selkie legend through an immersive installation that drifts between myth and memory.
As Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award 2025 recipient, Sarah Lou Kinneen received a €5000 bursary, Associate Membership with Sample-Studios, and an opportunity to present a solo exhibition in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion as part of Cork Film Festival 2025. Sarah Lou is the 3rd recipient of this Award which is presented in partnership with The National Sculpture Factory and Cork International Film Festival to champion emerging artist filmmakers.

Spanish curator Margarita Aizpuru will deliver a lecture on the contribution of Spanish and Latin American women artists to the field of performance art, from the 1960s to the present day. The talk with be followed with a screening of video-performances, images and excerpts.

12.00 -13.00 Feminisms and Performance Art: A Theoretical and Visual Introduction (Newman Building room A106 ART)

14.00-15.50 Screening of Artists’ Work and Q&A (Confucius Institute 1.05)

Event In English

A screening, conversation and Q&A event of visual artist Marie Brett’s YES, BUT DO YOU CARE? audio-visual art work is happening at Creative Spark Downtown Hub, in Dundalk, County Louth, on Wednesday 19 November 2025, at 4pm
Yes, But Do You Care? is in IMMA’s national collection and the artwork explores the politics of autonomy, dementia family care and capacity legislation. Based on real-life family carer stories combined with Ireland’s new Capacity Act legislation.
The artwork is part of a national tour, the artist having received an Arts Council Touring Award. At the event will be guest speaker Colm Mullen – the Artistic Director, Louth

Join us for an evening of sonic interventions with US-based artist Nathan Harper and Irene Murphy & Mick O’Shea from Cork.

Let’s Re-Imagine Laika + recent works invites us into Suzy O’ Mullane’s universe of empathy, mythology and imaginative rescue. Through her characteristic blend of tenderness and surrealism, O’ Mullane re-casts the tragic figure of Laika—the first dog sent into orbit—as a symbol of endurance and transcendence.
Here, the act of imagination becomes a form of healing: a way to repair what history has broken, to write gentler endings for stories of sacrifice and loss. The eponymous work extends beyond Laika’s narrative into a wider meditation on identity, vulnerability and power—human, animal, and cosmic.

Students from the RHA School have been working hard to create and select stunning artworks around the theme Liminality, exploring the in-between space of change, growth, and transformation.
Curated in collaboration with TU Dublin students, this show brings together pieces that don’t just reflect the artists’ own transitional journeys, but also invite you to step out of your everyday reality for a moment and experience something new. Come see how these emerging artists are pushing boundaries and showing work at a truly professional level. Running from the 20th -23rd of November!

UNDER THE SAME SKY is Nua Collective’s London debut exhibition at Candid Arts Trust, 20–23 November 2025. Bringing together Irish and Irish-connected artists across painting, photography, video, digital media, printmaking and installation, the exhibition reflects on coexistence, empathy and shared responsibility to our planet. Opening night: Thursday 20 November, 18:30–21:00. Open daily 10am to 9pm until 23 November. More at www.nuacollective.com.

Opening reception Thursday 20th November. 6pm. Exhibition Fri 21st -Weds 26th Nov. 12 5.30pm. Sat/Sun 11am – 5pm. Closed Mon. Seeing Ourselves presents a powerful series of oil paintings exploring the complexities of human identity and emotion. Through expressive forms and layered abstraction, Ivan transforms canvas into a space for reflection and introspection. Curated by Tony Strickland

Join us on Thursday, November 20th, 2025, at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, D 2, for a special fundraising event!
All featured works have been generously donated by professional artists from the Black Church Print Studio

Ticket are priced at €200 and there is a max of 50 tickets available.

At 7pm sharp, the Draw begins! When your ticket number is drawn, you can choose your favourite fine art print from the selection of work available. An exhilarting event that supports a vital artist’s resource in the city centre, funds raised from this event over the past 30+ years have enabled us buy new equipment and upgrade our facilities.

Alex de Roeck’s ‘Debt Wish’ examines an indulgence in wellness and self-optimisation in a culture where lifestyle, value and identity are endlessly renewed, quantified and consumed.

21 Nov, 2025 – 21 Dec, 2025

Hymn to Him is a guilty pleasure, a sustained glance at the relationship between the unstable and convoluted lives of artists and the composed stillness of the characters they create. In her painting and photographic work, she lingers on the surfaces of things – bellies, primroses, house keys, vegetables. Costello inserts herself into her compositions and, as her own model, she remains in control of both sides of the canvas.

Backwater Artists Group is delighted to present “In the Presence of Beings”, a solo exhibition by studio member, Seán Hanrahan. This new body of work takes its inspiration from ‘Visions of Genius,’ a major Hieronymus Bosch exhibition in his native city, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, which Hanrahan visited in 2016. The Haywain triptych in particular captivated Hanrahan and sparked an interest in ontology, the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to launch SORE SPOT, by artists Helen and Eva O’Leary. This exhibition features works that, when combined, aim to find moments of clarity and connection offering a  meditation on care, resistance, and the stubborn hope that emerges from making sense of a broken world.

SORE SPOT notes the distance between both artists as mother and daughter — geographic and generational, a map of crossings.  It’s about what the hands can make when words fail, how materials can offer a kind of reconciliation — or at least a pause in the noise.

This exhibition presents a series of charcoal drawings by Lelia Henry that explore the intelligence, memory, and emotional presence of trees, inspired by the groundbreaking research of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard.
The drawings focus on the visible forms we encounter every day – each drawing treats the tree as an individual with its own character. The works ask what it means to recognise familiar emotions and gestures in non-human forms. The forest becomes a mirror for human presence. The drawings invite viewers to slow down and engage with the trees around them, as companions in the landscape, each with their own story.

Mary St Leger and Bríd Moynahan are holding a joint exhibition of their artwork in West End Studios Mallow. The show runs from November 21st to the 8th of December (gallery opens Thursdays to Sundays). The show will be opened on Friday 21st of November at 6pm by Sarah Jayne Booth, a well-known multimedia artist who heads up the artist collective, R.a.g.e. (Realising Absolute Gender Equality). Their show, which features etchings, paintings and sculpture, addresses themes of childhood, identity, gender and matriarchy.

Ormston House presents ‘Table Turning’, a solo exhibition by Susan MacWilliam.

Since 1997, Susan MacWilliam has had an ongoing fascination with how humans have sought to document and quantify the spirit realm. She explores the study of psychic phenomena by drawing from printed archives, scientific apparatus, and interviews with experts.

This exhibition of new work has emerged out of the cutting, stitching, and moulding of paper, felt, and clay. For MacWilliam, “the realisation of ideas and objects in the studio” is akin to “the manifestations and materialisations of the séance room”.

Ormston House is open Wednesday to Saturday, 12–6pm.

This year Cork Printmakers will host our biggest print fair to date across three floors of our studio on Wandesford Quay.
This is a unique opportunity to buy fine art prints within the creative surroundings of a printmaking studio, with live print demos, raffles, and stalls by some of our 130 artist members. From screenprints, etchings, woodcuts and more, print is an affordable and original gift for Christmas, and you are guaranteed to find something to suit your budget. On Friday evening from 5-7pm join us as we open late for an after-work festive reception.

Language as Wound, Silence as War marks the final chapter in Pigsy’s Automatic Apology Trilogy. Following exhibitions in Mexico (Tá Brón Orm, 2024, and Níl Brón Orm, 2025), this Dublin presentation continues an exploration of how language and silence shape emotion, connection, and conflict.

Opening for one night only at Fade Street Studios, Dublin 2, on Friday, 21 November 2025, from 6.30–8.30 pm, the exhibition brings together a new body of work that reflects on the spaces between apology, vulnerability, and peace.

Waking the Land is a collective based in Leitrim. Our five members are Tara Baoth Mooney, Shane Finan, James Kelly, Laura McMorrow, and Sonya Swarte. We collectively occupy an artist-led studio and experimental space in Manorhamilton that opened in September 2022. Over the past three years, we have led events in north Leitrim in response to environmental grief, care, and tending to the land.

Irish artist Michelle Campion unveils her new seascape oil painting collection, WILD, inspired by the dramatic shores of the Galway coast. Capturing the power and beauty of the Atlantic, each piece reflects the untamed spirit of Ireland’s western sea.

See WILD at the Barna Art Fair, November 22nd–23rd in Co. Galway, a weekend celebration of Irish art and creativity. It’s the perfect chance to discover original works and find something truly special for Christmas.

Opening 3.00pm – 5.00pm Saturday 22nd November. All Welcome. Butler Gallery is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by the Kinsale-based artist Brian Harte. This solo exhibition comes at a pivotal point in Harte’s career and is his first museum exhibition in Ireland. For the past nine years his career has focused on international commitments. Harte creates paintings that deconstruct interior settings which embrace components from his own domestic family life. This exhibition invitation has allowed the artist to step back from commercial gallery demands to reflect and experiment.

In November 2025 Golden Thread Gallery will be presenting a new exhibition by artist Sharon Murphy, curated by Sarah McAvera.
Drawing from her background in theatre and shaped by influences from psychoanalysis and magic realism, Murphy’s work delves into theatrical settings, captured in moments of quiet and stillness. Through recurring symbols such as curtains, deserted stages, and performative environments, she investigates the thin line between illusion and reality, presence and absence.

The Border That Crossed Me is a multi-sensory collaborative exhibition exploring surveillance technology, border infrastructures, and climate-induced migration. This exhibition has been devised for the Golden Thread Gallery in collaboration with FLAX Artist Studios, Belfast and Azzedine Saleck. Presented in our Upper Gallery, The Border That Crossed Me examines the political and emotional geographies of divided territories across the globe.

What goes together better than music and zine making? Maybe a collaborative makers day with CZF and Éist? Join us for an Éist listening party and zine making session at the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 12:00 until 15:00, where we will be listening live to Éist community radio and creating zines in response to the music and sounds.

Participants will be given the chance to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on November 25.

Materials will be provided, no experience needed. Workshop is free but spaces are limited and booking is required.

Let’s Not Talk About This Now is a solo exhibition of drawings, sculptures, and prints by Peter Nash at Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery which opens on Culture Night. 

Taking the form of an exploded encyclopedia, or chaotic museum exhibit, his visual explorations are open-ended and inherently human; a continuous search for understanding in a rapidly evolving digital age.

Whilst the exhibition aesthetic is influenced by museums and reference books, there are no claims to authority being made. There are deliberately more questions posed than answers presented.

Artist Talk 8 October 1pm

Opening Reception 16 October, 6pm.

Backwater Artists Group is delighted to present The Paradise. [mother unmothered], a solo exhibition by Backwater Artists Network member, Pauline Keena.

This important body of work illuminates’ women’s stories in recent Irish history around the subject of motherhood, separation and loss, in relation to forced adoption for unmarried women and girls who were pregnant outside of marriage.

OXO 2025 Launch Night – Launching Nov 14 / 18:00 – 21:00 / Registration Required

Outset Gallery is delighted to present the 2025 edition of the Outset Xmas Open.
OXO will act as Ireland’s largest Christmas exhibition of 2025 and will run between 14 Nov 2025 – 25 Jan 2026, providing a platform for artists based locally, nationally & internationally to exhibit their artwork in Galway City, the cultural capital of the West.

The free launch event will run from 18.00-21.00 with complementary refreshments for guests and music from resident DJ, Mitch Presents.
Entry can only be made via crioss street entrance – registration is essential.

Exhibition continues from the 4th of October to the 14th of November 2025

Drawings by Hungarian artist Gábor Roskó and Irish artist Mark Lawlor interpreted in words by Rebecca O’Connor.

FRI 14 – SAT 29 | Lord Mayor’s Pavilion | 11:00 – 16:00 | FREE
OPEN DAILY: 11:00 – 16:00, TUE-SAT
OPENING RECEPTION: 13:00, FRI 14 NOV
Stolen Sealskin is a solo exhibition by Sarah Lou Kinneen, recipient of the Parallax Emerging Film Artist Bursary
2025, a collaboration between CIFF, National Sculpture Factory and Sample-Studios to champion emerging film
artists and moving image work. Stolen Sealskin reimagines the enduring Selkie legend through an immersive
installation that drifts between myth and memory. The legend follows a shapeshifting seal-woman who becomes
bound to land and severed from sea when her sealskin is stolen.

The launch of Súil Gallery in Ennis, Co. Clare will take place at 7pm on Thursday, 14th November. This new gallery promises to be a vibrant addition to the local arts scene, featuring an inspiring collection of works by a range of talented artists, Michelle is one of the exhibiting artists who is proud to have a piece on display.

Guests are warmly invited to join the artists and community for the launch evening to celebrate creativity, connection, and the beginning of this exciting new artistic venture in Clare.

A unique exhibition, funded by Research Ireland, merging art, science, and community. The multimedia exhibition is the culmination of a project curated by artist, Lorna Donlon in partnership with women in minority communities across Ireland and biomedical researchers from UCD Conway Institute in University College Dublin (UCD). Through a series of ten gatherings in community settings around Ireland women shared personal stories about fabrics significant to their cultural traditions, customs and lived experience. Inspired by these stories, Lorna created a handwoven tapestry that bridges personal and scientific narratives through fabric.

Liminal Landscapes is a two-person exhibition featuring painter Gabhann Dunne and sculptor/writer Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe. Exploring transitions from ecological change to the boundaries of sculpture and writing, Dunne’s paintings respond to the Burren’s ecological narratives and the resilience of the Burren Pines. Hynan-Ratcliffe’s sculptural and written works engage with materiality, feminist perspectives, and cycles of grief and renewal. Together, their practices create a dialogue across nature, identity, and time, inviting reflection on our impact and connection to the earth

Book Launch with exhibition. 15th Nov – 30th Nov
In this remarkable collaboration between two of Ireland’s finest artists, James Harpur and Paul Ó Colmáin have produced a book of wonders, a set of poems and artworks that imaginatively restore the lives of the Irish saints. Here are pages in which the human and divine, natural and supernatural, converge and interfuse, a realm which is recognisably Irish, but also a place beyond – where Ireland is invisible.

Exhibition continues from the 3rd of October to the 15th of November 2025.

When Stars Collide is a multimedia installation that reshapes the gallery floor with paths of sand and heaps of gravel, where an array of fallen stars and a decapitated bronze head reside. The head becomes both relic and narrator, voicing its dilemmas and contemplations: the embodiment of the night sky, recalled fragments of memory, inherited beliefs, the body it lost, its disappointments, and its hope, all while waiting… waiting for what comes next. Drifting between analysis and poetry, the head loops back and forth, reflecting upon the spectrum of existence within the space and time it currently occupies.

Geraldine O’Neill’s new exhibition responds to the escalating tension between humanity and the natural world. Her work speaks directly to the Anthropocene, our current epoch, where human presence is inscribed into the geological fabric of the earth.

For O’Neill, this presence is made vivid through the everyday. Domestic references, images of her children, and items from her studio mingle with art-historical fragments, still birds, and household detritus. These layered references situate the intimacy of home life within broader cultural and ecological frameworks.

In a process of distillation, a core value within this new body of work, Walker integrates themes ranging from the climate crisis, disability, and the deplorable genocide in Gaza. Finding material from the constant and horrifying political landscape being played out throughout the world, he has created a response that reflects resilience under extreme frustration. This collection of sculptures accompanied by a number of works on paper span from a precise perception of scale to unravelled compositions of structure and to articulate a situation beyond comprehension.

Exhibition continues from the 24th of October to the 15th of November 2025

Deirdre Brennan’s series “100 Years of O’Connell Street” is on exhibition in Trieste as part of Trieste Photo Days Festival.
In honour of the 100th anniversary of the street’s name change from Sackville Street to O’Connell Street, Deirdre created a series of street portraits. Each person holds a gift for the street and gives their perspective on our main boulevard.

Celebrating 50 years of Performance Art in Ireland.
A 3 day event with keynote speakers, discussions, discussions, performance and workshops.
Events located in Belfast School of Art, Sanctuary Theatre and Alexandra Park, Belfast.

Registration for events required – EARLYBIRD discount until 7 Nov. Contact Bbeyond for member discount.

Thurs 13 Nov – 6pm start in Belfast School of Art
Fri 14 Nov – 10am start in Sanctuary Theatre, Belfast
Sat 15 Nov – 10 am start Unity Walk from Belfast School of Art

Luan Gallery presents Systems and Cyborgs – a series of talks, workshops, screenings, and creative activities in dialogue with current exhibition SYSTEM ARMING for Science Week 2025. Science week events will run from Tuesday, 11th Nov to Saturday, 15th Nov.

In this remarkable collaboration between two of Ireland’s finest artists,
James Harpur and Paul Ó Colmáin have produced a book of wonders, a set of poems and artworks that imaginatively restore the lives of the Irish saints.
Here are pages in which the human and divine, natural and supernatural, converge and interfuse into a realm which is recognisably Irish, but also a place beyond – where Ireland is invisible.
The exhibition will continue until Sat. Dec. 6th.

This gallery exhibition centers on the textile installation by artist Varvara Keidan Shavrova, born in Soviet Russia and now living in England and Ireland. The installation features eight screen-printed felt blankets, each depicting images from her family photo album. This social and performative artwork invites interaction: visitors are encouraged to touch the blankets or drape them over their shoulders.

Juxtaposed with the artwork are historical objects from the Documentation Centre’s collection, including a tablecloth from East Prussia, a bedspread from Bohemia, and a small table cover from Brandenburg.

Textiles such as blankets, tablecloths, handkerchiefs, traditional costumes, coats, cloaks, scarves, and throws are poignant witnesses to hardship and suffering. They serve as relics of loss and deprivation, embodying the deeply human desire to connect with warmth, familiarity, and family. These objects offer a sense of solace against the painful experiences of displacement, loneliness, and uprootedness.

Varvara Keidan Shavrova’s work speaks to these shared experiences of millions of refugees, displaced persons, and emigrants, resonating with their enduring stories.

Exhibition Dates: February 2- November 16, 2025

An Adventure in 21st Century Romanticism. Naessens presents an exhibition of new works, featuring acrylic ink drawings with etching, ink rollups and coloured pencil details as well as etchings and computer drawings.

This autumn, the picturesque town of Kenmare will host the inaugural Design Kenmare, a new festival celebrating creativity and design across disciplines — from architecture and interiors to fashion, graphics, photography, and product design. Uniquely, however, the focus will be on understanding and experiencing design differently from other events.

Taking place over three days, from November 14th – 16th, as an official curtain raiser to Irish Design Week, the festival will feature a world-class line-up of Irish and international designers, architects, photographers and creative thinkers in an intimate programme of talks and panels.

F r e e d o m is an artistic act of solidarity with those the Kings don’t care about.

Inspired by Antigone, this one-off experimental performance intervention explores what an act of defiance against the Kings looks like today.

Three international artists, Iman Aoun (Palestine), Haider Al Timimi (Belgium), and Maud Hendricks (Ireland), each working at a different proximity to Gaza, ask how does an artist’s contextual distance shape their work in relation to Gaza, freedom, and truth-speaking?

An original chorus of nine Ireland-based performers will be joined by new chorus members who meet and perform in a single afternoon.

Art Source is coming to Dublin this November. Featuring an incredible selection of affordable art, as well as exciting pieces from the biggest names in the art world, this is an unmissable event for art lovers.

Join us this November for a unique dance performance titled Moving Signatures, featuring participants from CoisCéim Broadreach in response to the museum’s Permanent Collection exhibition IMMA Collection: Art as Agency and the historical site of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Featuring 19 participants, audience members are invited to follow the dance in a promenade-style experience through IMMA’s communal and transitory spaces, exploring how movement activates the museum’s social and spatial architecture. 

An exhibition of new paintings and photographs by Galway based artist Dean Kelly – OFFICIAL OPENING 24TH OCTOBER.

Join Dean Kelly and guest speaker Phill Jupitus at The Kenny Gallery on Friday, October 24th to celebrate the opening of Is Was. In his first solo show at The Kenny Gallery since 2019, Dean Kelly draws on the evolving fabric of Galway, engaging with the city’s streetscape and social memory through painting and photography.

Dean Kelly, Is Was opens at The Kenny Gallery, Galway on Friday, 24th October from 6pm. Admission is free, all are welcome!

Exhibition continues from the 15th of November to the 18th of November 2025

To celebrate of the bicentennial of photography, The Paris International Street Photography Awards has curated an exhibition of 50 photographers. Deirdre Brennan’s image of Sinead O’Connor’s funeral cortege was selected for the exhibition at the Joseph Froissart gallery, located at 7 rue Froissart in the historic Le Marais district of Paris, will host the exhibition “PISPA 2025 Bicentennial” from November 15th to 18th. An exhibition commemorating 200 years of photography since Joseph Nicé phore Nié pce and Louis Daguerre gave the world the first photographic process as modern history has remembered it.

Join us for an evening of sonic interventions with US-based artist Nathan Harper and Irene Murphy & Mick O’Shea from Cork.

A screening, conversation and Q&A event of visual artist Marie Brett’s YES, BUT DO YOU CARE? audio-visual art work is happening at Creative Spark Downtown Hub, in Dundalk, County Louth, on Wednesday 19 November 2025, at 4pm
Yes, But Do You Care? is in IMMA’s national collection and the artwork explores the politics of autonomy, dementia family care and capacity legislation. Based on real-life family carer stories combined with Ireland’s new Capacity Act legislation.
The artwork is part of a national tour, the artist having received an Arts Council Touring Award. At the event will be guest speaker Colm Mullen – the Artistic Director, Louth

Spanish curator Margarita Aizpuru will deliver a lecture on the contribution of Spanish and Latin American women artists to the field of performance art, from the 1960s to the present day. The talk with be followed with a screening of video-performances, images and excerpts.

12.00 -13.00 Feminisms and Performance Art: A Theoretical and Visual Introduction (Newman Building room A106 ART)

14.00-15.50 Screening of Artists’ Work and Q&A (Confucius Institute 1.05)

Event In English

Join us on Thursday, November 20th, 2025, at The Library Project, 4 Temple Bar, D 2, for a special fundraising event!
All featured works have been generously donated by professional artists from the Black Church Print Studio

Ticket are priced at €200 and there is a max of 50 tickets available.

At 7pm sharp, the Draw begins! When your ticket number is drawn, you can choose your favourite fine art print from the selection of work available. An exhilarting event that supports a vital artist’s resource in the city centre, funds raised from this event over the past 30+ years have enabled us buy new equipment and upgrade our facilities.

This exhibition features work from IMMA’s National Collection and invited artists, including Orla Barry, Herman Braun-Vega, Gary Coyle, Ann Hamilton, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Kathy Prendergast, and Marisa Rappard.

The exhibition takes its inspiration from a poem written by Marianne Moore in 1921 titled “The Grave.” The poem stems from Moore’s personal experience of observing the sea with her mother, where her brother’s intrusion on their view inspired reflections on the human tendency to focus on the immediate rather than the larger picture.

Language as Wound, Silence as War marks the final chapter in Pigsy’s Automatic Apology Trilogy. Following exhibitions in Mexico (Tá Brón Orm, 2024, and Níl Brón Orm, 2025), this Dublin presentation continues an exploration of how language and silence shape emotion, connection, and conflict.

Opening for one night only at Fade Street Studios, Dublin 2, on Friday, 21 November 2025, from 6.30–8.30 pm, the exhibition brings together a new body of work that reflects on the spaces between apology, vulnerability, and peace.

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2025. The series of 8 x 3-week exhibitions between March–November 2025 will present exhibitions of new work by:

Cillian Finnerty, Michella Randilu Perera, Niamh Coffey, Reuben Brown, Lucy Andrews, Kathryn Maguire, Gary Farrelly, Caroline Mac Cathmaoil.

Artist-Initiated Projects at Pallas Projects/Studios is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of 8 x 3-week exhibitions taking place between March and November 2025. This unique programme of funded, artist-initiated projects selected via open call is highly accessible to artists, with a focus on early career, emerging artists and recent graduates. Projects are supplemented with artists’ talks, texts, workshops or performances, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.

Cillian Finnerty — March 27th – April 12th

Michella Randilu Perera — April 24th – May 10th

Niamh Coffey — May 22nd – June 7th

Reuben Brown — June 19th – 5th July

Lucy Andrews — July 17th – August 2nd

Kathryn Maguire — September 11th – 27th

Gary Farrelly — October 9th – 25th

Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil — 6th – 22nd November

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Pallas Projects/Studios is one of Ireland’s longest running artist-run spaces, with a dedicated tradition over 28 years towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment, providing opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists to develop and exhibit new work. PP/S have established a nationwide and international reputation among artists and organisations, and a public profile through successful and critically engaged exhibitions, publishing, collaborations and partnerships, and education programmes for schools. Recent projects include the 4-year research project and publication ‘Artist-Run Europe’, published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven in 2016, and the annual ‘Periodical Review’ exhibition now in its thirteenth year.

Exhibition continues 27 September – 22 November 2025.

“So Nice Day” by the Carrowbeg Artist Collective invites viewers into an immersive dialogue between art, ecology, and lived experience. Created by seven artists with intellectual disabilities, the exhibition weaves natural materials with personal narratives, exploring sensory awareness, sustainability, and our bond with nature. By amplifying diverse voices, CHG&S highlights the transformative power of art, fostering inclusion and deepening cultural conversations around ecology and accessibility.

For her solo exhibition at The LAB Gallery, Ní Mhaonaigh presents a new series of small-scale works that build on the learning of earlier paintings, while chronicling some interesting departures. In tracing a landscape in flux, these works can be loosely categorised into three groupings: canvas studies of organic structures, read as floral, mossy, or tree-like; linear and geometric forms, etched into smooth, silvery backgrounds; and a set of intricate works on board, incorporating vast asymmetrical arcs. 

Kerlin Gallery is delighted to announce “Look at the Harlequins!”, a solo exhibition by Isabel Nolan.

Ahead of Isabel Nolan’s forthcoming representation of Ireland at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, this exhibition offers an insight into the artist’s practice characterised by its shifting movement between mediums, where sculpture, textiles and works on paper are held in lively dialogue, celebrating and communing with historical figures and works of art that speak to us across centuries.

‘Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #6’ continues to present and celebrate accomplished artists based in the region. The art selection on display has been curated to reflect the diversity and originality of their creativity with numerous artworks encompassing vibrant abstracts, atmospheric landscape paintings, works inspired by the beauty of nature, intriguing figures, exquisite glass art, textile gems, and remarkable sculptures.

Featuring over 20 artists represented by Gallery 545.

Opening reception – Saturday 25 October 2-4 pm
Exhibition Tour – Saturday 8 November 2pm

In ‘Elemental’ Clive Bright explores the language of paint using a geometric backdrop as a recurring motif.

Bright’s paintings have a universal narrative. Through absence, and the use of inanimate objects, Bright creates a sense of human presence, which in turn personifies the objects. His deep understanding and appreciation of his subject evokes powerful sentiments communicating more than just a visually pleasing experience.
Bright works principally with oil paint but drawing & line play a constant and major role in his work. He avoids slipping into a process or procedure of creating a drawing or painting: “I constantly try to change

UNDER THE SAME SKY is Nua Collective’s London debut exhibition at Candid Arts Trust, 20–23 November 2025. Bringing together Irish and Irish-connected artists across painting, photography, video, digital media, printmaking and installation, the exhibition reflects on coexistence, empathy and shared responsibility to our planet. Opening night: Thursday 20 November, 18:30–21:00. Open daily 10am to 9pm until 23 November. More at www.nuacollective.com.

This year Cork Printmakers will host our biggest print fair to date across three floors of our studio on Wandesford Quay.
This is a unique opportunity to buy fine art prints within the creative surroundings of a printmaking studio, with live print demos, raffles, and stalls by some of our 130 artist members. From screenprints, etchings, woodcuts and more, print is an affordable and original gift for Christmas, and you are guaranteed to find something to suit your budget. On Friday evening from 5-7pm join us as we open late for an after-work festive reception.

Brigid Teehan’s practice spans drawing, mixed media and installation to articulate the fractures of contemporary society, her reverence for the earth and an exploration of folklore and bodily fragility.
Ian Mannion explores how we consume information, food, and ideas. His layered works examine how these elements are prepared and presented, using the impressions of everyday materials to question our daily habits.

Opening times vary, see https://www.tipperarylibraries.ie/branches/clonmel-library/
– 11am Tea & Scones Launch on Saturday 15th Nov
– 6pm Artists Talk plus Q&A on Wednesday 19th Nov

Established by Catalyst Arts in 1994 and now in its 16th edition, FIX is an internationally renowned biennial of live art and performance.

FIX25 will take place in locations across Belfast City Centre, with artists responding to the theme of HIGH OCTANE — forceful; intense; dynamic; high-powered. Artists include: Alastair MacLennan, Amanda Coogan, Bbeyond, BSOA students, Brian Connolly, Emma Brennan, Glassbox collective, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea, Nathan Harper, Rudger Power, Sally O’Dowd, Sandra Johnston, and Thomas Wells.

Full schedule of events is available on the Catalyst Arts website.

Opening reception: Thursday 02 October 2025, 6–8pm

Frank Sweeney’s new film, ‘Go Ye Afar’, follows the journey of an Irish-Nigerian taxi driver on a miraculous voyage through the streets of Dublin and Calabar. Using a range of techniques and sources, from reenacted interviews and archival footage to rear-projection and Nollywood-inspired special effects, a series of characters are transported through interconnected sites in Ireland and Nigeria.

Exhibition continues from the 18th of October to the 23rd of November 2025

Ryan’s practice ranges from object making to site-specific interventions, creating sculptural pieces with glass and mixed media. Frustrations, anxieties and personal history are catalysts in her work interrogating the social construct of feminine identity and the value of women in the rural patriarchal space.

Catharsis is key to Cotter’s practice. In drawings, textiles or performance, the level of detail in her work is astonishing. She says: ‘The drawings are made up of thousands of little units. Either dots or words or the same gesture, repeated over and over: a form of meditation.’

Exhibition continues from the 24th of October to the 23rd of November 2025

Deirdre Brennan’s image of Sinead O’Connor’s funeral courage was selected for “The Canticle of the Creatures”
Trieste Photo Days Canticle of the Creatures” refers to an international photography project and exhibition inspired by St. Francis of Assisi’s hymn, with a photographic book published and exhibited at both the Palazzo Frumentario in Assisi and during the main Trieste Photo Days festival. The project was an open call for photographers to visually interpret the themes of the Canticle and culminated in a main exhibition in Trieste in late October 2025, following an earlier one in Assisi that ran from September 1–21, 2025.

What goes together better than music and zine making? Maybe a collaborative makers day with CZF and Éist? Join us for an Éist listening party and zine making session at the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space from 12:00 until 15:00, where we will be listening live to Éist community radio and creating zines in response to the music and sounds.

Participants will be given the chance to have their zines duplicated to add to the CZF Zine Library and have on display during the CZF Zine Library Showcase and Exhibition opening on November 25.

Materials will be provided, no experience needed. Workshop is free but spaces are limited and booking is required.

Irish artist Michelle Campion unveils her new seascape oil painting collection, WILD, inspired by the dramatic shores of the Galway coast. Capturing the power and beauty of the Atlantic, each piece reflects the untamed spirit of Ireland’s western sea.

See WILD at the Barna Art Fair, November 22nd–23rd in Co. Galway, a weekend celebration of Irish art and creativity. It’s the perfect chance to discover original works and find something truly special for Christmas.

Festival continues from the 7th of November to the 23rd of November 2025

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce its 23rd edition, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Running from 7–23 November 2025, the festival unfolds across multiple venues in Galway City and extends internationally with a satellite exhibition in New York.

Exhibitions, events, tours, and workshops will take place across Galway at TULCA Gallery (Hynes Building), Galway Arts Centre, 126 Artist-run Gallery, University of Galway (James Mitchell Geology Museum, Zoology & Marine Biology Museum, and University Gallery), and ATU Wellpark Road Library. Explore the 2025 Festival Programme at tulca.ie

Students from the RHA School have been working hard to create and select stunning artworks around the theme Liminality, exploring the in-between space of change, growth, and transformation.
Curated in collaboration with TU Dublin students, this show brings together pieces that don’t just reflect the artists’ own transitional journeys, but also invite you to step out of your everyday reality for a moment and experience something new. Come see how these emerging artists are pushing boundaries and showing work at a truly professional level. Running from the 20th -23rd of November!

Exhibition continues from the 10th of November to the 23rd of November 2025

The Signal Arts Centre in Bray is showing a new collection of paintings entitled “Landscapes in Time” by artist Kieran Guckian.
The work is inspired by the Irish landscape with a focus on both Kieran’s plein-air work, a central part of his practice and his studio work. His location work is a crucial part of his research and ideation for his larger studio pieces. For this collection Kieran spent time in multiple locations such as the Copper Coast and the Burren as well as favourite locations in Wicklow such as Bray Head and Glendalough.
The opening event will take place on Friday the 14th of November from 7pm to 9pm.

Cosmos Gallery and Studios in Dhaka Bangladesh and the Department of foreign affairs are delighted to invite you to the inaugural cultural exchange residency and exhibition by Oona Hyland which will be opened by the Irish Ambassador to India in Dhaka on November 4th The exhibition will run until the end of November 2025 .

Opening reception Thursday 20th November. 6pm. Exhibition Fri 21st -Weds 26th Nov. 12 5.30pm. Sat/Sun 11am – 5pm. Closed Mon. Seeing Ourselves presents a powerful series of oil paintings exploring the complexities of human identity and emotion. Through expressive forms and layered abstraction, Ivan transforms canvas into a space for reflection and introspection. Curated by Tony Strickland